Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) replication is fundamental to life, yet the precise mechanics of how helicases unwind the genome for replication remain unclear. A recent study published in Nature used ...

New imaging tools reveal how within an hour of infection, the virus begins to alter our chromosomes to kick-start its own replication.

For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...

Problems during DNA replication can cause the genome to become disorganized, which is often a key step on the route to cancer. Some genetic diseases, too, result from problems with DNA replication.

When not undergoing replication, DNA molecules float freely within the cytoplasm of a cell. This makes them available to the ...

"DNA replication is tightly controlled by the cell," said Moore. "If any one of the 3 billion base pairs that make up our genome has a mutation, it can cause cancer or other diseases, ...

Their findings, which were published March 7 in Science, one of world’s leading scientific journals, not only reveal new details about how secondary DNA structures like G4s can impede DNA replication, ...